Lyne’s movie Jacob’s Ladder from the early nineties is quite a good piece of disturbing, but yet intense and inspiring film, which shifts restlessly from the stark brutality of Vietnam to happy memories of playing with Gabriel, Jacob’s son, from terrifying, surrealistic glimpses of selfmade horror to ordinary life with Jezebel, Jacob’s wife, in New York.
Sometimes the shifts are almost imperceptibly gradual; sometimes they are shockingly abrupt.
And this is one of the clues why this movie, which was a total failure at the box office, is definitely one of the best works of Lyne.
Favourite.
